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December 27, 2018
Okay you bloodthirsty, power-seeking, fun-lovers.
Interested in reading more about the government of a nation whose throne may or may not hold a new ruler the next day if he's not wary?
Added Kilnholdt's Government to the Wiki
Concept and first draft written by @Foe
Critiques and edits by @Xathas, @RuddyF, and our newest member @CaptnSunny
Current page total: 282

Hi all!
This is the Official Lore Changelog; where I try my best to track all changes in the Wiki. Originally started by @OccidentalAnvil and continued by myself after I took up the mantle of Loremaster, this is your go-to forum to find Canon Lore Updates!
Despite the recent Forum Wipe for A'therys Horizons, I've taken the effort to track and re-post the Changelog from Evo in this original post. See Spoiler below for the old Changelog

December 24, 2018
So with the website returning to it's dark theme, we've made a bunch of improvements to the lorelanding!
Added a MAP to the lorelanding!
This map (see below for all 5 playable nations lit up) will light up a nation when you hover over it; and allow you to click into it to go to the nation's overview page!
Original Map Artistic Render by @cicetil
Overlay graphics and new HoriRule [the nifty divider in the lore sections] by @Xathas
Coding by @Rynelf (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript!)

December 22, 2018
Small Governmental Update put in today!
Added Government of the Gennaian Isles
Governmental Concepts originally by @Xathas
Very long-winded Isles Chat with @Foe, @Tristan_vr, @raxiam, @Dani, and @redninja685 . Fortunately there were no casualties. 🤯
Compiled by Xathas; Edits and Revisions by @Foe

December 6, 2018
Sorry for the hiatus; combination of reorganization, loss of a few folks, and general busy season at work / school.
Today brings an update we've been working on for awhile; updating what you first see when you click into a Playable Nation! The Nation Appendix, as I've nicknamed it, is an overview of the nation's key elements. In addition, these pages will track Current Events and keep a record of active Player Characters and Player Cities once the server opens!
Added Overview of Atvoria
Added Overview of the Gennaian Isles
Added Overview of Daidama
Added Overview of Dalkun-Tir
Added Overview of Kilnholdt

Architecture wise; a lot of it is utilizing scrap and salvage in conjuncture with found ruins (I'd honestly reference Fallout here; in the sense that the original buildings are decayed and dilapidated but the settlers have gone about and restructured them to their own needs). Abroad from these hubs; there would indeed be some semblance of travel-based sites (such as yurts and similar portable structures)

Dalkun-Tir's basis (and nature of dissent and feuding) was indeed based off of Mongolia (with Daidama basing itself off of the Imperial era of China). That noted; there are also modern twists that have altered it as the nation's developed loreside.
A large part of this revolves around the old civilization that existed before them. It's collapse was both in a literal sense when the quakes hit and in a figurative sense when its remaining founders died and paranoia never passed on knowledge to their descendants. See: the movie Atlantis The Lost Empire, in its ruin and lost technology state (the people live on the graves of its buildings; but only worry about carrying on living. In that sense; it's why the modern Dalkun simply mined up parts they needed to make what they could. It's only recently that people are trying to rediscover what remains, rather than simply scrap it down - but on the other hand you also have people whose way of life depends on mining out and salvage. The caravans have to keep running or their very way of economics loses a pillar.

Adding to this; development team is presently at only two active coders who both have full time jobs otherwise.
@MisChiv and @Brady1233 if either of you either have the ability to learn java / sponge codebase and want to apply such skills; there might be more progress updates as well. Or if you know any developers looking to work with the team and recommend them our way.
.....Or just keep complaining when an update isn't something you are interested in, but is still important to the development of the server and see how little we care about things not going your way because you've put no effort into the project.

August 9, 2018
Added the Falkynthos to﻿ Cities of the Gennaian Isles
City built by the A'therys Build Team under the leadership of @redninja685
1st Lore Draft by @Dani
Edits and revisions by @Kmartinator, @RuddyF, @Foe, @Xathas
Second Lore Draft by @Xathas, merged with 1st draft
Final edits and revisions by @Aerun and @Foe
Added the Government of Dalkun-Tir
Concept and Draft by @Xathas
Edits and revisions by @Foe and @Kmartinator

Firstly - moved from General to Lore Discussion.
Mixed Answer on this one.
Firstly, as the focus of the story is moving to the other side of the globe - any player characters falling under the canon-friendly characters (Those that can have an update their own entries in the Wiki) must be from the Horizons side of the world.
In addition to the time skip (82 years since the end of Horizons), this is generally a movement towards getting people to write new stories, avoid repeating old tropes/cliques/etc.
That noted; as it always has been. You are more than welcome to play what you want without caring about the system; be it a character that is obviously pilfered from an anime series you love, from the Non-Playable nations, or even Dragonfriend's creepy furry world where he hit on people as a humanoid dragon; as long as you keep it PG-13 and adhere to the other terms of service and rules of A'therys. However, it will not be valid for the Canon-Friendly character entries.

the very next line is: " organized by Role in the Quest. "
Also because the Sidebar looks really awkward when it double-lines per entry; and I've been trying to avoid that last part.
Adjusted to
"The Twelve Guilds are listed in this section", instead of below. Should resolve a bit of confusion. I think the term below initially spawned from debating doing them in Block sections, rather than individual pages; but changed my mind on that early in.
In this case; comparing to the cultures of nations with distinct record of caste and class was necessary, as few of the new nations hold such systems. The closest otherwise is how Dalkun-Tir's caravans are closer to familial units than anything; but it didn't really work in the same context.

It's been pointed out that players have been hesitant to start and talk on these; so I'm opening up a Discussion Topic on the latest Lore Release, and will be making these threads for feedback / discussion / player theorizing / and general excitement
This week's Lore Release was the Guilds of Atvoria!

M﻿ay 16, 2018
Everything technically went up about 12 hours ago last night; but I hadn't had time to get all the Namelinks and such in yet. Here's the official post with credits; there's a lot of them ❤️
Added the An Overview of Atvoria's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Xathas
Edits and rewrites by @Kmartinator and @Foe
Added the The Chemic's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Second Draft by @Xathas
Edits and rewrites by @Xathas, @Kmartinator , @Aerun, @Rynelf
Added the The Farrier's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Second Draft and expansion by @Aerun
Edits and rewrites by @Rynelf, @Kmartinator, and @Xathas
Added the The Gambler's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Edits and rewrites by @Rynelf and @Kmartinator
Added the The Gardener's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Edits and rewrites by @Rynelf and @Kmartinator
Added the The Judge's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Edits and rewrites by @Kmartinator
Critiques by @Rynelf and @RuddyF
Added the The Lover's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Xathas
Edits and rewrites by @Kmartinator and @Foe
Added the The Minstrel's Guild to Atvoria
First Draft by @Xathas
Edits and rewrites by @Rynelf and @Kmartinator
Added the The Poacher's Guild to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Edits and rewrites by @Foe and @Kmartinator
Added the The Scribe's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Binders added by @Xathas
Second Draft by @Aerun
Edits and rewrites by @Rynelf and @Kmartinator
Added the The Shipwright's Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Razrivon
Edits and rewrites by @Xathas, @RuddyF, and @Rynelf
Added the The Ward's Guild to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Initial critiques an edits by @Razrivon
Second Draft by @Foe
Final edits by @Xathas, @RuddyF, and @Rynelf
Added the The Wretches' Guilds to Atvoria
First Draft by @Aerun
Second Draft by @Xathas
Edits and rewrites by @Kmartinator
A huge thanks to everyone that worked on this project! With 13 articles posted; it's our most ambitious project since The Magic Update; but we wanted to release all the guilds in one go to give a solid frame of idea for player characters to work with!
Presuming all goes well, we'll have another articles coming out next week as planned. If the team's a bit burned out after this one, we might delay a week; I'll update in either case!
Want to discuss the contents of this latest release? Check out the Discussion Topic!

April 18, 2018
Added the Dragon, Teziltuic to the Wiki
First draft by @Xathas
Huacaletl concept drawn from work by @GodOfGales
Name adjustments and edits thanks to @Aerun and @Razrivon
Rewrites and critiques by @Kmartinator
Secondary edits by @RuddyF

After a fairly hellish 3 weeks of tech, and some time off to recover and reorganize; Lore updates are back on! This week features the release of an Alchemy Nation related article! Specifically, the dragon Teziltuic!
April 18, 2018
Added the Dragon, Teziltuic to the Wiki
First draft by @Xathas
Huacaletl concept drawn from work by @GodOfGales
Name adjustments and edits thanks to @Aerun and @Razrivon
Rewrites and critiques by @Kmartinator
Secondary edits by @RuddyF

Aw man.. I should have timed out a pie-themed entry for this week!
Oh well, next year maybe.
Instead, enjoy reading about the culture of the Gennaiain Isles!
Added The Gennaiain Isles' Culture article
First draft by @Xathas
Initial critiques and edits by @Kmartinator, @Foe and @RuddyF
Second draft by @Dani, merged with first draft
Final revisions by @Aerun, @Kreaden, and @Kmartinator

March 14, 2018
Added The Gennaiain Isles' Culture article
First draft by @Xathas
Initial critiques and edits by @Kmartinator, @Foe and @RuddyF
Second draft by @Dani, merged with first draft
Final revisions by @Aerun, @Kreaden, and @Kmartinator